Bellwether Trial Document Preparation

Search this and you get case management orders. Nine of them, from nine different MDLs, and not one vendor page. The firms that do this work do not advertise it, which tells you something about how it gets staffed. A bellwether is tried like any other case, except that the record behind it was built […]

Administrative Record Preparation for APA Cases

An APA challenge is not an eDiscovery case. There is usually no party discovery at all. What there is instead is a record that has to be assembled, numbered, redacted, indexed and certified — and vendors who sell it as eDiscovery give themselves away. Federal agency litigation has surged, and a great deal of it […]

Blowback Printing Legal Productions

Every shop on the first page of search results for this is a franchise copy center. They can put toner on paper. They cannot tell you why the Bates number landed on top of the signature block. Blowback is printing a production back to paper from the images — the opposite direction from scanning, and […]